A few days earlier, AMD's Matt Skynner displayed the company's newest graphics card that seeks to extend the performance leadership currently held by Radeon HD 5970. The dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990, codenamed "Antilles", makes use of two 40 nm "Cayman" GPU, which powers the single-GPU HD 6950 and HD 6970. The core configuration of Cayman in Antilles is not known. The card itself keeps up with the product styling that all Radeon HD 6000 series carry, it's about as long as the HD 5970.

This time, AMD is toying with a revolutionary new cooler design that makes use of a cylindrical blower (like ones used in air-curtains, on a much smaller scale) to draw air from the rear portion of the cooler, and circulate through the complex vapor-chamber enhanced heatsink inside. In other words, the card lacks a fan intake hole where it's typically located, but the rear portion serves that purpose. Power is drawn in from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors. AMD is expected to release the new enthusiast graphics card in this quarter.

Wow! I think it doesn't look that long. Or maybe my eyes are lying to me. Or that guy is 7 foot tall

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Doesn't need to be as long because of the new cooler design. Look where the cores are. A regular centrifugal fan like on most GFX cards would be on top of the 2nd core. The narrow "air curtain" style fan fits in the end and doesn't take up much room (I imagine). I bet it is a noisey mofo though.

No.It sais that it sucks air from the back of the card and throw it out.

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No, it doesn't say that. It just says it draws air from the back, unless you're taking "circulates" as meaning it dumps the air out the way it came in, which would be truly awful. Such a narrow space for intake and exhaust to share means it's going to suck in it's own exhaust. Given the idiocy of that I'm left having to believe it will dump all the heat from both cores directly into your case. That's fine for an aftermarket solution but a stock cooler shouldn't be counting on the consumer having decent airflow. I wouldn't be surprised if this thing ends up shipping with the conventional blower design.